Handle for implements.



No. 630,073. Patented Aug. I, I899. w. H. RIFFEL' HANDLE FOR IMPLEMENTS;

(Application fllad Oct. 3, 1898.)

(No Model.)

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UNiTnn STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM H. RIFFEL, OF IIEROLD, VEST VIRGINIA.

HANDLE FOR IN] PLEM ENTS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 630,073, dated August 1, 1899.

Serial No. 692,567. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM H. RIFFEL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Herold, in the county of Braxton, State of West Virginia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Handles for Implements; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to earthworking implements in general, and more particularly to the handles thereof, and has for its object to provide such a device in which the handle may be readily applied to or removed from the implement, as may be desired.

In the drawings forming a portion of this specification, and in which like numerals of reference indicate similar parts in the several views, Figure 1 is a plan view showing a fork constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of the fork and handle thereof. Fig. 3 shows a modification.

Referring now to the drawings, in operating in accordance with my invention I employ the usual stick 5, upon which is arranged aferrule 6,whicl1 latter is placed upon the end of the stick or handle proper and comprises an encircling band 7 and two tapering legs 8, extending longitudinally of the handle. The ferrule is secured in place upon the handle by means of rivets 9 and 10 passing through the handle. The band 7 extends slightly beyond the end of the handle 5, and the resultant socket 7 has a narrowed tapered extension formed in the end of the handle. In this socket is seated an intermediate piece 11, having a screw-threaded recess 12 and held in place by means of a rivet 10 passed laterally through the handle 5, the extension 8 of the ferrule, and the narrowed portion of the socket. Cooperating with the construction thus described is a fork 13, having a socket 14 at its base, within which socket and centrally thereof is a screw-threaded pin or projection 15, adapted to engage the threads of the recess 12 of the intermediate piece 11. The interior surface of the socket 1st may be also screw-threaded, as shown, to engage the threads of the outer surface of the intermediate piece 11 to hold the fork more firmly thereto.

In Fig. 3 the outer surface of the ferrule 20 is shown as threaded, the socket 14 of the fork extending thereover and in threaded engagement therewith to lock the entire const-ruction firmly together.

It will be readily understood that I may employ my invention in connection with any tool to which it is applicable and that I may form the elements of my construction of any desirable and suitable material without departing from the spirit of my invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is 1. The combination with a handle proper, of a ferrule secured thereto, an intermediate piece within the handle and secured thereto and to the ferrule, a screw-threaded recess in the intermediate piece, and an implement having a socket adapted to receive the intermediate piece and provided with a screw threaded pin adapted to engage the threads of the recess of the latter.

2. The combination with a handle proper, of a ferrule secured thereto and extending therebeyond to form a seat, an intermediate piece within the seat, and an implement having a socket adapted to receive the intermediate piece.

3. The combination with a handle proper, of a ferrule secured thereto and projecting therebeyond to form a seat, an intermediate piece within the seat, a threaded recess in said piece, threads upon the exterior of the intermediate piece, and an implement having a socket provided with an interior screwthreaded pin and having threads upon its interior surface whereby said implement may be applied to the handle and the threads thereof engage the corresponding threads of the intermediate piece.

4. The combination with a handle proper, of a ferrule secured thereto and projecting beyond the end thereof to form a seat, said ferrule having also legs extending longitudinally of the handle, a tapering opening in the bandle extending from the seat, an intermediate piece within the seat having a tapered extension entering the opening in the handle,

threads upon the oliter surface of the intermetion adapted to enter the recess of the inter 16 diate piece, threads upon the ferrule forming mediate piece and engage the threads thereof.

a continuation of those of said piece, a cen- In testimony whereof 'I affix my signature tral recess in the intermediate piece having in presence of two Witnesses. 5 threads and an implement provided with a WILLIAM H RIFFEL.

socket threaded internally to receive the intermediate piece and engage the threads Witnessesi thereof and of the'fe'rrule, said socket of the E; L. HAMRIQ, implement having a central threaded projec- C. E. HAMRIO. 

